Tokyo, March 31 (Jiji Press)--Radioactive iodine 4,385 times the legal limit has been detected in seawater near the troubled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the industry ministry's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Thursday. Some 180 becquerels of iodine-131 per cubic centimeter were found in a seawater sample collected on Wednesday afternoon 330 meters off the discharge outlet of the No. 1 to 4 reactors of the plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, the agency said. The reading was higher than 3,355 times the limit of the radioactive material found at the same spot Tuesday. According to Tokyo Electric Power Co. <9501> officials, the plant's operator, radioactive materials produced in reactor vessels or spent fuel rod pools because of damage to fuel rods are likely to have newly flown into the waters near the plant. While no release of radioactive materials from the discharge outlet has been confirmed, the company has yet to find out how radioiodine reached the sampling point, the officials said.

As the situation at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant slowly winds down, the salient facts remain the same as they have been throughout: nobody has suffered or will suffer any radiological health consequences.

From Forbes article on gold. This is what some want to do. Pay fucking attention!!! With this system we would still be stuck with the Fed running open market operations to control the price of gold/PMs. We would still be stuck with fractional reserve banking. This sucks!!!

"Under a Dollar Bill system, the monetary base consists of fiat dollars (both currency and bank reserves) created by the Federal Reserve. The Fed is not allowed to set interest rates, and it is relieved of responsibility for promoting full employment. Instead, the Fed is tasked with employing its Open Market operations to adjust the size of the monetary base so as to keep the COMEX price of gold as close as operationally practical to a target gold price. Fractional reserve banking is allowed."

Indeud. Forbes' 'Dollah bill y'all' is the ultimate way to maintain the status quo; prestidigitation with the word 'gold' in it. Oh, BTW, can you say 'confiscation'? Heh, if the US does it will soon be followed by the words 'mass exodus'.